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Departments

Letters

Current Thinking

EDITORIAL

Obama the Nominee by Michael Lerner
They said it couldn't happen in America.

Not War But Conversations by Graylan Scott Hagler
If business rivals can talk, why can't governments?

The Contrarian: Celebrating Capitalism's Global Success

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

On the very real possibility of Transformational Change
by Marjorie Kelly
A hopeful letter to the next generation.

Integral Politics and the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture
by Steve McIntosh
Us Against Them is the problem. Integral is the solution.

Transforming the U.S. Media: Commercial Free at Last
by Allen D. Kanner
Counter attack on the invasion of our minds.

Obama and the Flag Pin by Peter Gabel
Standing up to Societal Phoniness. Don't fall for a false "we."

The Contest and the Spectacle by Eli Zaretsky
The deeper meaning of the Democratic Primaries two-ring circus.

Obama as Reparations by Charles P. Henry
The quest for a post-racial America--will this be adequate recompense for slavery?

Faith in Action: Ending Slavery, Together by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Modern solutions to a resurgent scourge

Can a Group Like MomsRising.org Lead the U.S. to a New Bottom Line?
by Nanette Fondas
Rocking the cradle--and American politics.

The Moral Dimensions of Sports

1. Patriotism at the Ballpark by Peter Gabel
2. The Case of the Giants by Jack Ucciferri
Can the nation hold all the players in its National Pastime to a moral standard--even the team owners?

RETHINKING RELIGION

JUDAISM

The Jews Who Wrote in Arabic by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Human Rights and Ecology by David Seidenberg

INTERFAITH

The Death Penalty is Losing by Glen Stassen
Ending the Death Penalty in New Jersey by John Goodwin
Separating Faith from Belief by David Tacey

BUDDHISM

Consciousness Commodified: The Attention Deficit Society by David Loy

EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

Who Should Take Care of the Poor? by Tony Campolo

CULTURE

BOOKS

Change We Can Believe In
Deep Economy by Bill McKibben, and Break Through by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Review by Roger S. Gottlieb

Response to Gottlieb
by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

Caroline Fourest's Brother Tariq
Review by Andrew Stallybrass

Soulful at the Start
Revolutionary Spirits by Gary Kowalski
Review by Marcia Beauchamp

Mark Lilla's Political Theology
The Stillborn God by Mark Lilla
Review by Eugene B. Borowitz

STAND-UP COMEDY

What's So Funny about a Dead Terrorist?
Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity
Review by Paul Lewis

POETRY

Vision by Joshua Weitz

The Torah in the Palm of the Hand
by Rodger Kamenetz

HUMOR

Dear Swami by Swami Beyondananda